General Discussion, Thursday, March 17, 2016

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Stella

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  1. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    March 17, 2016 at 12:04 am

    Heh! Number 1 from ABQ. Happy St. Paddy’s Day!

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  3. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    March 17, 2016 at 12:15 am

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  4. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    March 17, 2016 at 12:49 am

    Coffee up y’all. 🙂

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  5. The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
    March 17, 2016 at 1:31 am

    Beautiful stained glass window, Stella. Do you know what church it’s in?

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    March 17, 2016 at 8:00 am

    Happy St. Paddy’s day, kids!

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  7. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    March 17, 2016 at 8:08 am

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  8. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    March 17, 2016 at 8:35 am

    Hehe! Ohio slaps Boehner in the face by electing a TP candidate to his seat in the primary. :lol

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/16/one-last-indignity-the-tea-party-swipes-john-boehners-seat/

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 17, 2016 at 8:47 am

    Thinking of you taqi, particularly, but others might be interested in this man’s (Bear McCreary) explanation of his process of composing (more specifically, scoring) – particularly for movie and television:

    https://www.inverse.com/article/12338-bear-mccreary-composes-for-pirates-scottish-time-travelers-and-zombies

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  11. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    March 17, 2016 at 9:07 am

    😀

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 17, 2016 at 9:09 am

    Good morning, and a very joyous St. Patrick’s Day to you!

    I’m part Irish, and largely a child of the Celts of the British Isles and Western Europe. The music races in my blood, and a bit of the dark skepticism lives in my bones! Even if you aren’t Irish, it’s a good day to celebrate with your Irish friends, and maybe consider the tales of St. Patrick (Padraic) himself.

    For hundreds of years, people all over the world have celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. But very little is known about the man whose life the holiday honors. Much of St. Patrick’s story is a mystery, shrouded by centuries of myth and legend. This much we do know:

    Just over 1,500 years ago, a young Welsh teenager was stolen away from his family—kidnapped by a band of marauders—and sold into slavery in a foreign land. Years later, he finally managed to escape and make his way home . . . only to feel God calling him to return to the land of his slavery! Patrick was to preach the light of truth to a people lost in darkness: the people of Ireland.

    At that time, the Irish were pagans and druids. They worshipped all kinds of gods and spirits and supernatural beings. Their lives were held captive by fear and superstition. So great was the love God gave Patrick for the people of Ireland that he was willing to risk the very real possibility of imprisonment, torture, and death. Earlier attempts to reach the Irish had been unsuccessful. Others had thoroughly failed. But having lived in the land for six years himself, Patrick understood the language, the culture, the customs. He was able to communicate with the people in a way they understood. https://www.crossway.org/tracts/the-tale-of-st-patrick-2574/

    So Patrick was a Welshman, who converted the Irish? Even better for me, as one branch of my family comes from Wales! So I offer an Irish blessing to all of you:

    These things I warmly wish to you-
    Someone to love
    Some work to do
    A bit o’ sun
    A bit o’ cheer
    And a guardian angel always near.

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  13. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    March 17, 2016 at 9:34 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🌯 (It’s bacon, not a burrito)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ taqiyyologist! 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka Cetera) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, czarowniczy and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 17, 2016 at 10:14 am

    A couple of links that I sent to a “What about the children?” refugee supporter 🙄

    ISIS launches youth wing ‘Fityan al Islam’ to produce next gen killers like Nazis

    http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/isis-launches-youth-wing-fityan-al-islam-to-produce-next-gen-killers-like-nazis_1862983.html

    The ISIS Army That’s Still Unborn

    In ISIS-land, mothers are given books telling them how to raise their offspring for ‘jihad.’ This includes telling bedtime stories about ‘martyrdom.’

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  15. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 17, 2016 at 11:34 am

    Chicago instigators unmasked.

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  16. Col.((R) Ken's avatar Col.((R) Ken says:
    March 17, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    Thank You Stella!!!! Gary Owen always gets me going. I knew JohnP would have the fighting Irish today……”Right by Fours, Forward!!!!”.

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  17. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 17, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    Deputies suspended for ‘failures to act’ at Trump rally where protester punched

    Madness takes it toll.

    I wonder what the PTB are going to do when they have completely neutralized LE and given the streets over to savages who would sooner throw the PTB into the deep blue sea as get a job. It amazes me that the PTB are that ignorant of history as to not understand that they are and always will be the enemy of their minions and their minions will actually be angrier at them than they have been trained and prodded to be at Trump and Trump supporters.

    Buckle up folks.

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  18. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 17, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    Shapiro has lost his mind.

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  19. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 17, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    In our local newspaper:

    “The March 8 primary election saw higher than anticipated turnout across Oakland County, as just over 40 percent of registered voters showed up to the polls, up from 20 percent in the 2012 presidential primary election. In [my town] alone, nearly 46% of registered voters submitted a ballot, with 7,194 of the 15,641 voters voting.”

    By the way, my city had a 63% turnout in the 2012 Presidential election.

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  20. Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
    March 17, 2016 at 5:18 pm

    <b.Donald Trump Got More Votes In Ohio Than Hillary Clinton (Yeah, I know it’s Puff Ho, but just dash over there real quick like and come back home.) 😉
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/clinton-trump-ohio_us_56e9a0b8e4b065e2e3d8314c

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  21. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    March 17, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    I successfully reinstalled Win8.1 on a friend’s PC today, and it only took it 3 hours or so to finish. Complete wipe and reset. I haven’t done that since WinME.

    I tried my best to get rid of the 5,700+ pieces of malware on it (the most I’ve ever seen), but after 14 hours straight, went with the nuclear option. I saved her 4.5 GB of family pictures to a DVD. I’m going over to their house tomorrow to set up a fresh windows install, and am also going to scan the DVD itself with a couple of different programs to see if anything in the photos folder is infected.

    What I don’t understand is: how is it possible to reinstall Windows with no DVDs and no internet connection? (I’d be danged if I’d let that thing connect to my network.)

    Also, I wonder if I should throw my thumb drive away that I had plugged into it? Can all that crazy malware: rootkits and virii and everything else — can it also infect my thumbdrive? It was empty, and I put six or so anti-malware and other fixer programs on it, and it was plugged into Patient Zero for many hours.

    Also, my Android phone. This is the weird bit: yesterday my touch-and-hold-to-unlock lock screen with the background (a Florida Sandhill crane in my folks’ yard) was replaced with a slide-to-unlock screen, totally different, and, more importantly, not even an available OPTION on my phone’s lock screen settings. There is NO slide-to-unlock option available AT ALL on my phone. Can malware jump through WIFI or Bluetooth to my phone? Because it’s not doing it now, it’s back to the old crane screen. I’m scanning my phone for malware now.

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  22. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    March 17, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    Just found this in my inbox. 🙂

    Fear of Trump is driving a liberal exodus to Canada

    The flood of Trump fearing American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The Republican Presidential primary campaign is prompting an exodus among left leaning citizens who fear they’ll soon be required to hunt, pray, and live according to conservative ideas about the Constitution.

    Canadian border farmers say it’s not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, global warming activists, and “green” energy proponents crossing their fields at night. “I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn,” said Southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. “The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn’t have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?” In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just keep coming.

    Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into electric cars and drive them across the border where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.

    “A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions,” an Ontario border patrolman said. “I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though, and some kale chips.”

    When liberals are caught, they’re sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear assassination from Trump high hairers. Rumors have been circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and study the Constitution.

    In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half- dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the ’50s. “If they can’t identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age,” an official said.

    Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, buying up all the Barbara Streisand c.d.’s, and renting all the Michael Moore movies. “I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can’t support them,” an Ottawa resident said. “How many art-history majors does one country need?”

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  23. michellc's avatar michellc says:
    March 17, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    For those of you who know me, you will know why I’m about to die laughing. I just got called an “animal rights person.”

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  24. Ad rem's avatar Ad rem says:
    March 17, 2016 at 9:20 pm

    Looks like it’s gonna get real….

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/03/16/anti-israel-black-lives-matter-activist-is-hell-bent-on-inciting-riots-over-trump/

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  25. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    March 17, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    This jumped out at me, b/c of the day. The statistics in the first paragraph are very disturbing:

    The Jihad in Ireland

    http://counterjihadreport.com/2016/03/17/the-jihad-in-ireland/

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  26. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 17, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    Scott Adams is spot on.

    How to know Trump is in your head

    Is it my imagination… or is Hillary Clinton yelling her speeches lately?

    And didn’t Donald Trump start questioning her “stamina” a few months ago?

    In the 2D world of politics, those two things are unrelated. But in the 3D world of persuasion, Trump is making Clinton yell herself hoarse to prove she has stamina.

    And once she is hoarse and tired from all the yelling, Trump will point out that she lacks stamina.

    Yes, he is that good.

    🙂

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  27. Stella's avatar stella says:
    March 17, 2016 at 10:22 pm

    Is Ted Cruz Eligible to Be President?

    The very last thing I want to start is an argument over whether or not Ted Cruz is eligible to be President, because I believe that none of us is qualified to make that decision and that, ultimately, it should be decided by the Supreme Court. We all have opinions, and you know what they say about opinions.

    All of that being said, the video that I am attaching is fascinating, because it is two eminent Harvard lawyers debating the question, using the law and their understanding of the law, to come to very different conclusions. If you have the time to watch it (it is almost an hour long), the video is very, very, interesting.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      March 17, 2016 at 11:03 pm

      When I get time I will watch it because my DH made me think one night when he said twisting words is how they try to do away with the freedom of religion and right to bear arms and that the founding fathers wrote the Constitution in simple to understand words.

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      March 17, 2016 at 11:08 pm

      I wish it would go before the SCOTUS. Scalia said it is the one case that none of the justices wanted before them. I agree we all have opinions and mine fluctuates with different opinions and information I read.

      In Cruz’s case I think the answer lies in whether his parents were Canadian citizens when he was born. If they were Canadians, then I think the answer is simple, Cruz is not even now a US citizen.

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
      March 18, 2016 at 12:32 am

      Is that Little Marco’s dad?

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  28. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    March 17, 2016 at 10:23 pm

    Any Celtic Thunder fans?

    Damian McGinity has rejoined the group. (Maybe for a while but I just found out about it right now 🙂 ) He was just a wee lad when they started out and he got big for his britches and felt entitled to adulation of all, including his parents so his folks took him out of Celtic Thunder and George Donaldson (the leader of the group) promised that he would not be let back in the group even at 18 unless he developed his character. Sadly George passed away in 2014 . Damian is back so I hope he has grown into an honorable man.

    Lovely voice.

    When he was a young man.

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  29. Wooly Covfefe's avatar taqiyyologist says:
    March 18, 2016 at 12:03 am

    I think that Celtic Thunder bumps some other artist out of my Top 10.

    That’s just, Wow.

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